The Canadian government used a Haitian executive's property for helicopter evacuations of its citizens as violence escalated there last month, even while refusing to remove him from a sanctions list, a Federal Court application says.
He claims he was"happy to agree" to provide assistance. But even though the Canadian government had turned to him"in a time of crisis," it refused to lift the sanctions against him, he says. The Canadian government accused Deeb, Gilbert Bigio and Sherif Abdallah of protecting and enabling"armed criminal gangs, including through money laundering and other acts of corruption."
Canada's ambassador asked for his help on the same day the minister of foreign affairs declined to remove him from the sanctions list, his application says. In an interview, Deeb's lawyers John Boscariol and Geoff Hall said Deeb has email communications with Canadian embassy officials thanking him for use of his property to stage helicopter evacuations and RCMP training exercises for Haitian police officers.